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Motorola Unveils 4.7-Inch Moto X Smartphone with 24-Hour Battery and Touchless Controls
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pretty sweet. I wish they would have gone with 32gb so maybe it would force apple to start there instead of 16gb.
It looks nice, I really like google now, but I have a jaded past with Moto.
I'm kind of getting over the smartphone craze- they are all basically doing the same things/looking the same these days. I'm sure the battery on this thing doesn't get 24 hours of real world use, and that's kind of the most attractive feature.
I'm kind of getting over the smartphone craze- they are all basically doing the same things/looking the same these days. I'm sure the battery on this thing doesn't get 24 hours of real world use, and that's kind of the most attractive feature.
I'm pretty certain they would be telling the truth about the processor on the device listening for the command locally. It would chew way too much battery and data to run the translation all the way back to googles servers and back.
Now, if you were to interject wondering if it listened to other keywords and recorded that... it would be interesting. (Although, with the open source nature of the product, I'm certain someone would catch this behaviour before anyone was at any real risk).
I am a huge apple fan, but these conviences are making me starting to take both feet out of the Apple Sandbox.
-Handsfree requests! Siri just isn't useful enough for day to day scenarios, plus the lag from finding your phone to holding down the home button. It would be nice to just say your keyword and instantly start your task.
-Accelerometer activated camera? Brilliant. Yes it's fast to fire up the the screen on the iphone, and then slide the camera icon... But when you need to get that really fast photo, I think this gesture could be awesome!
iPhone 5S will hopefully come with some serious improvements, or I'll be grabbing a Google Play edition of something. HTC One? Moto X? (Even an S4?)
Further conjecture. I cannot wait until the marketting gurus have to pit the iPhone 5S vs the Samsung S5!
5S vs S5 shoot out! Who Wins? We got to confused to remember!
...mmm. If I have to say the words "google now" every time I'm going to tell it to do something, it's not going to happen.
Though, if you're Google, it's an effective means of getting people to chant your your brand name. ...over and over again. ...all day, every day.
For ever..
and ever...
and ever....
Though, if you're Google, it's an effective means of getting people to chant your your brand name. ...over and over again. ...all day, every day.
For ever..
and ever...
and ever....
Yeah this article is wrong.
This phone isn't even stock Android, according to Motorola they are being treated like every other OEM, even though Google owns them.
This doesn't even have the latest version of Android on it. LOL.
$199 on contract for a phone with worse specs than the Galaxy SIV? Sorry, this thing is going nowhere. I will be shocked if Motorola breaks out of single-digit market share.
They are talking about "Talk Time" battery life - 24 hours. (not a web browsing in wi-fi or LTE/3G/3.5G).
Great if you only talk on the smartphone and nothing else. But not sure why iPhone 5 Talk time is not comparable with others.
For smartphone web browsing battery life is the important one. check out anandtech. iPhone 5 rules on that.
And it sucks. Both in the vulgar sense, and in the sense it sucks your battery fast!
Let me preface this by saying, I hate Android. And I hate fandroids. But if this phone really delivers 24 hour battery life and hands free activation with Google Now, then I hate to say it, but an Android feature has actually made me wish I had it. I've been clamoring since Siri came out that the future will have finally arrived when I can just ask Siri a question out of the blue, no phone in hand, and get a response. Thats just a few steps behind the way they operate their computer in Star Trek! "Computer? How many parsecs is it to the next galaxy?"
I'd almost bet there are restrictions that in the end will make it pointless, but if Google pulled it off, then color me impressed.
to tell you the truth, i have both an iPhone 5 and an Nexus 4 as a secondary smartphone but i end up spending more time on my Nexus nowadays. granted the display of the iPhone is better as the brightness is still unbeatable but android is not bad as soon as you get used to it and adjust everything to your liking and needs.
this phone does look nice!
i guess thats due to the fact that its assembled in the US?
Wow, that last bit about "Designed by you. Assembled in USA" is an obvious poke at Apple's recent ad campagin. The phone looks a little too wide but besides that its interesting.
Right now, Siri is useless for this kind of jobs. On the other side, it's hard to judge, based on an advertisement where everything go's perfect in a perfect world with perfect people. Same reason why I'm not inpressed anymore when Apple introduces the best camera in an iPhone they have ever made (again and again...). Apple imo leans to much on this marketing flow, expanding the life time of an revolutionary phone that outdated itself by proud and fear.
In specs.....
maybe can be a flagship competitor. Expertise, real use experience, ecosystem, years of experience and so on play out in favor of the iPhone. But price is hardly to hesitate in this new venture of Google....and can make a worth competitor, based only in this magic sign:....$.....
maybe can be a flagship competitor. Expertise, real use experience, ecosystem, years of experience and so on play out in favor of the iPhone. But price is hardly to hesitate in this new venture of Google....and can make a worth competitor, based only in this magic sign:....$.....
Why is this frontpage news on Macrumors? Just another Android phone, only this time under-specced and over-priced. Read the comments on Verge et al., the disappointment among the Fandroids is immense. They thought they'd get a flagship phone with zero margin for 200-300$ without contract; now they found out that Moto actually needs to make some profit as Google is not ready to cover their losses indefinitely...